Word: three
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years later, Albert Bacon Fall made a sad trip, back to Three Rivers, N. Mex., resigned, suspect, disgraced. People were saying he had accepted presents from oil men in return for giving them rich leases and contracts on Government reserves...
...vagrant hurricane at length skirted the southern tip of Florida, blew down grapefruit trees, electric lines, a few buildings. Three Floridans were electrocuted by downed wires. Then it veered northwest. While relieved Miamians took down their barricades, cowering residents of Pensacola and Mobile frantically prepared for the worst...
...origins of this rift were in 1925 when the Czechs, three fourths of whom are Catholics, celebrated as a national holiday the anniversary of the martyrdom of John Hus five centuries ago. Since Heretic Hus had been burned for intimating that the anti-Christ could be found at Rome, the papacy was quick to express its resentment over this holiday and withdrew the Papal Nuncio from the Prague for almost a year...
Preparations. Ishbel MacDonald, roseate daughter and hostess of the Prime Minister, was discovered buying apparel for the trip. Laborite feelings were reassured by news that she and her father intended to live from three suitcases apiece-he trusting to luck for golf clubs if they should be usable, she upon diplomatic courtesy for anything her natural complexion might not conquer...
...Lately, Fascist and Maltese editors have been hoarsely agitating for the return of Malta to Italy. Last week, over the signature of Friend Lord Strickland an order was issued which 1) Forbade circulation of any newspapers or pamphlets containing anti-British or anti-Strickland propaganda. 2) Imposed penalties of three years imprisonment "on those who help enemies of His Majesty in whatever way, or conspire against the Maltese government," with two years imprisonment "for those who incite others against the government...